Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22f96cc30e05ac6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 07:32:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: bb8d9369459e1753b4c3c40031a02936 SHA-1: 5a284e2817606717ffe113849605da2d5f9c6bab SHA-256: 22f96cc30e05ac6d13bc22e0ba318d5a4957d53f279774e3f4c2750534aa9c78
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content likely prompts the user to install a browser update or extension, a common social-engineering technique.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+cast+tablet+to+tv+with+chromecast PDF link annotation
    • http://bhttourist.com/upload/fckimagesfile/59012510291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tepatsasaran.com/contents/files/muwobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanguardhungary.hu/userfiles/file/56522177974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sr00dl9r7a3vfvia29f9dg079m/lulorazewoxopokukano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studybrilliant.online/app/webroot/img/userfiles/file/panusovetiseriluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaronandanthony.com/userfiles/files/81094184901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salt17.com/userfiles/files/vapiwoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purplebyanki-com.bvirani.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99975087352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dierenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/bezudofadefuwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drsrkbedcollege.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63089917940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rdsdealers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jinijikozomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandioso.asia/editor_upload_image/file/jasokuzuketa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baloneacessorios.com/_upload/file///temopinosimupiwuzuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamnitikamini.si/upload/files/46857412593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150002.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210910202243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f0621c6230b929356227ac1a9946efd/61677426309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basketaci.cz/UserFiles/File/kuwogid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/niterawedetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161302fdaa71f9---30071417029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnologycenter.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/46677147482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediasingrid.com/js/new/fckeditor/userfiles/file/66335652625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72rg373v7tsi5jc20ockmeh674/35538644721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3749d22d5c6bb785e2091cb40880444/jilijulekotimoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b822.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB822 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 62f9289d27c64fd9790cbefb8539cebf9b944dc572f6d83f3f304b6f444013b8
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0A2 16396 bytes
SHA-256: 3db5642304a35ba00e2319c3c7d83aa66f0e2a450ec77c8a46a83917faf1a641
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB25 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1